Mance said it’s the eighth time that flooding has damaged her salon business on Bower Hill Road in 12 years.

“And it literally, as you can see, destroys everything we have here,” she said.

Mance said storm water runs down the hill behind her business and doesn’t drain properly.

“Every time I hear it rain, I get scared and I cry, and think ‘There goes our building.’ This is all we have. We lost everything,” Mance said. “We're going to have to sell our home now because we lost everything.”

She wants help from township leaders to make the problem stop.

“We have been to every township meeting when it happens … and have pleaded and begged and asked them. We need help. We're done. We cannot do this anymore."

Down the street, Shawn Hess feels Mance’s pain as a foot of water flooded his basement, ruining several radios and heaters.

“It looked like Niagara Falls coming into my house,” he said. “This is the second time in two years this has happened.”

Hess said the water is flowing downhill from a church behind him, and wants help from the community, too.

“They gotta do some major work up there, and I hope they can take care of us,” he said. “If not, it's going to happen again here. It's non-stop."

Mance said she has no choices left.

“We're done, we're tapped out, we have nothing left,” she said. “And I don't know what else to do.”

The worst damage was in Carnegie and Scott Township, neighboring municipalities just southwest of the city.

There were widespread reports of basement flooding, though some streets also flooded when storm drains couldn't handle about 2 inches of rain that fell in a short period of time.

The flooding was the worst in those areas since September 2004, when rains from remnants of Hurricane Ivan flooded much of southwestern Pennsylvania.

IT HAS IMPROVED RADAR. JUST SEARCH WTAE IN YOUR APPLE APP STORE. MORE RAIN IS NOT SITTING WELL WITH NEIGHBORS ON THIS PARTICULAR STREET IN CARNEGIE. HOUSE AFTER HOUSE FLOODED AFTER SATURDAY'S STORMS. FRUSTRATION STARTED BUBBLING UP BEFORE THE WATER HAD A CHANCE TO RECEDE. COURTNEY? MATT, WE TALKED TO SEVERAL FAMILIES LIVING HERE ON CALIFORNIA AVENUE WHO SAY THEY SPENT MOST OF TODAY CLEANING UP THEIR FLOODED BASEMENTS. THEY'RE WORRIED RD WITH THE RAIN THAT'S POSSIBLY HEADED OUR WAY, THIS ISN'T OVER YET. TONIGHT HIS BASEMENT IS IN HIS BACKYARD. MATTRESSES, DOORS, CARPET, FOUR ROOMS OF STUFF SOAKED WITH SEWAGE WATER. WHEN WE PULLED ON OUR STREET WE SAW TWO STREAMS OF MUDDY WATER COMING DOWN THE STREET. Reporter: THEY TRIED TO SAVE WHAT THEY COULD. EVERYBODY IS PICKING THE GOOD STUFF UP OFF THE FLOORS AND STUFF, YOU KNOW, SO YEAH, WE JUST -- AND THEN WE HAD TO ABANDON ALL EFFORTS AND GET OUT OF THE BASEMENT BECAUSE IT WAS PRETTY BAD. Reporter: NOW THE LOWER LEVEL LOOKS LIKE THIS. AND STEPHAN ESTIMATES IT WILL COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO REPLACE THAT FINISHED BASEMENT. ACROSS THE STREET IT'S THE SAME STORY AS JONATHAN'S HOUSE. WENT DOWN THERE TO TRY TO GET THE KIDS' TOYS OUT OF THERE. THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, A FOOT OF WATER AND EVERYTHING DOWN THERE WAS DESTROYED. Reporter: INCLUDING MEMORIES YOU CAN'T BUY BACK, LIKE HIS WIFE'S WEDDING DRESS. I'M SPENDING HOURS IN THE BASEMENT TRYING TO GET EVERYTHING OUT. IS IT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN? Reporter: THAT'S WHAT MEGHAN SEXTON IS SCARED ABOUT. JUST SICK. JUST WORRIED ABOUT SICK. Reporter: SHOWING US THE GARBAGE BAGS AT THE END OF HER DRIVEWAY AND ANOTHER ROUND OF ÷PRAIN, SHE WONDERS IF MORE WATER WILL SEEP INTO THEIR BASEMENT. THE WORST PART IS LIKE THE MEMORIES, LIKE UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD A LOT OF BABY PHOTOS, THE ARE GONE, WEDDING DRESS, ALL OF THAT. SO STUFF THAT'S NOT REPLACEABLE, THAT'S THE HARDEST. Reporter: THERE MAY BE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGE. AND A LOT OF THESE HOMES IN THE AREA, BUT THE GOOD NEWS TO REPORT IN ALL OF THIS IS, NO

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